Combined cigar-cutter, cigar-lighter, and advertising apparatus.



L. B. GRASBERGER. COMBINED GIGAR GUTTER, CIGAR LIGHTER, AND ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1.912.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1912.

Patented Feb. 3, 1914.

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COMBINED CIGAR-CUTTER, CIG-AR-LIGHTER, AND ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

vPatented Feb'. s, 1914.

Application led June 22,1912. Serial No. 705,336.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE B. GRAS- BERGER, citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Cigar-Cutters, Cigar-Lighters, and Advertising Apparatus, of which the following is a specification. A

My invention is a combined cigar clipper, cigar lighter, and advertising apparatus, the object of the invention being to lprovide a mechanism which will be contained within a common casing and operated froma single point, whereby, when the end of a cigar is cut, a ame will be provided for the lighting of the cigar and a sign displayed immediately adjacent the cigar cutter.

The invention seeks to provide on operating mechanism common to the several instrumentalities, which will be simple in the construction and arrangement of its parts and easily manipulated to attain the desired ends.

These stated objects, and such other objects as will incidentally appear as the description of the invention proceeds, are attained in an apparatus of the character illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and the invention consists in certain novel features which will be hereinafter iirst fully described and then more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings -Figure 1 is a front elevation of an apparatus embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a horizontal detail section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a detail perspective of the operating lever.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a casing 1 which may be provided with suitable doors in one end for the inspection, cleaning, or repairing of the operating mechanism, and in the opposite end with a similar door through which the cards displayed in the rotary drum may be inserted, and will also preferably be provided with a door in the back for the insertion and removal of the battery and the spark coil, as

ends of the casing, I provide standards, one of which is shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, close to the endV of the casing, while the other standard, shown at 2, is spaced from the adjacent end of the casing and forms the main suppo-rt for the operating mechanism; A drum 3 is rotatably mounted in and extends between the said standards, and said drum is preferably constructed of a series of plates having their longitudinal edges abutting and secured together and provided with overhanging flanges 4, thereby providing beads to receive the cards or signs, 5, as will be readily understood. The cards are slid longitudinally into engagement with will be readily understood. Adjacent thev the said flanges and may be changed as` often as may be considered desirable. The drum is provided with stub-shafts 6 at its ends constituting trunnions or journals having bearings in the standards which rise from the bottom of the casing, and the stubshaft 6 which has its bearing in the standard 2 is extended through the said standard and equipped with a disk 7 from the face of which pins or teeth 8 project toward the adjacent end of the casing to be engaged by a dog 9 and a pawl 10, so that the said disk and the drum may be rotated with a step by step motion and held against retrograde movement. The pawl 10 serves as a stop to prevent the reverse movement of the drum and is pivotally mounted upon the upper extremity of the standard 2, so that it will rest upon the pins 8, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The pawl is held yieldingly in en-V gagement with the said pins by a spring 11 secured to the pawl and the standard, so

that, while the pins may ride readily underthe pawl, the pawl will be positively in position t0 engage behind the forward pin and thereby prevent the backward movement of the same. The dog 9 is pivotally attached to the rear end of a vibratory arm 12, which is fulcrumed adjacent its front end upon the standard 2, and is provided with a forwardly projectinglip or linger 13 bearing upon a rearwardly projecting finger or shoulder 14 on the main operating lever 15, which is fulcrumed upon the standard 2, and extends forwardly through a slot 16 in the front of the casing, the forward extremity of the said lever being equipped with a puslrbutton or other form of handle 17, as shown. The dog 9 is yieldingly held in its upper position to engage under a pin S projecting from the disk 7 by a spring 1S secured to the rear edge of the dog and to a lug or other projection 19 on the rear edge of the standard 2 immediately adjacent the upper end thereof.

It will be readily seen that, when the forward end of the main lever 15 is depressed, the shoulder or finger 14 thereon, immediately in rear of the fulcrum 20, will be moved upwardly and the forward end of the arm 12 will likewise be moved upward through its engagement with the said linger or shoulder. The rear end of the vibratory arm 1'2 being thus moved downwardly, the dog 9 will move downward against the tension of the spring 18 and will slip into engagement with a pin 8 below the pin previously engaged. lVhen the pressure upon the principal lever 15 is released, the spring 18 at once contracts so as to draw the dog 9 upwardly and the dog, by reason of its engagement with the pin S, will rotate the drum sufficiently to bring a card succeeding the one previously displayed into position beneath the view-opening- 21 in the casing. To prevent the drum being rotated too far, va stop finger 22 is provided on the upper edge of the lever 15, which linger projects into the path of the pins S, as will be readily understood on reference to Fig. 2.

Secured in any convenient form of brackets upon the inner wall of the casing, at the ends of the drum 3, are incandescent electric lamps Q3 which are connected in series and which are caused to flash when the lever 15 is manipulated and are automatically extinguished when the lever is released. To control the said lamps, a battery, indicated at 24, is placed within the casing in the bottom of the same, and one pole of the battery is connected by a con-- ductor Q5 with one terminal of the lamps, and the otherterniinal of the lamps is connected by a conductor 26 with a switch arm 27 secured upon and rising from the bottom of the casing. This switch arm Q7 is preferably a leaf spring having its upper end extending into the path of movement of the lever 15 and curved slightly away from said path, so that, when the lever is depressed, it will make contact with the upper end of the said switch arm and form a partof the lamp circuit, A conductor Q8 connects the opposite pole of the battery with the lower end of the standard 2, and the lamp circuit is completed through the said standard and the fulcrum of the lever 15, the circuit being, as will be readily understood, from the battery through the con ductor Q5 and the lamps, then from the lamps through the conductor 2G to the switch arm Q7, thence through the lever 15 and the fulcrum thereof to the standard 2, and from the said standard through the conductor 2S back to the battery. As the forward end of the lever 15 is depressed, its under edge will be caused to impinge upon a lateral lug or shoulder 2f) at the lower end of the slide 30 which carries at its upper end the cutter 31. The cutter consists of a steel plate provided with an opening 32 therein having beveled edges whereby it will constitute a knife, and the said plate is guided by and plays in the vtube 33 secured upon the casing, as shown. The said tube is provided with openings 34, in its front and rear walls to receive the tip of the cigar, and the walls of the opening 34 are beveled so as to co-act with the walls of the opening 32 in the cutter and thereby shear oit the end or tip of the cigar, as will be readily understood, the cut-off fragment dropping through the opening to the top of the casing, and, if desired. a cup or other receptacle may be provided to catch and hold the seve al severed particles. The cut ter is normally held in its raised position, with the opening 32 registering with the opening 34, by a spring 36 secured to the upper end of the slide 30 and to the casing, as will be readily understood.

Tithin the casing, between the end of the same and the drum, I secure the body 37 of a lamp which is completed by a burner or tube 38 rising from the said body through the top of the casing, and a lilling tube 39 secured upon the casing in convenient posi-v tion to direc-t alcohol or other fuel into the body 37. A wick 40 is provided and extends through the burner tube 38, the upper end thereof being normally covered by a cap 4l formed on the end of a rod 42 which constitutes a combined igniter and extinguisher. This rod 42 has its upper end doubled on itself, as shown at 43, to carry the cap 41, and the main portion of the rod is mounted in a bearing sleeve 44 which extends through the casing and is equipped at any convenient ,point of its length with a spiral or cam groove 45. The rod 42 is provided with a pin 46 engaging the said cam groove 45, and the lower end of the said rod has secured thereto a thimble 47 having its lower end reduced and depending :into a position directly over the lateral enlargement 48 at the rear extremity of the main lever 15, so that, when the said lever is actuated by depressing the front end thereof, the said enlargement or lifter 48 will strike against the lower extremity of the thimble 47 and thereby impart a vertical movement to the rod 42. As the rod 42 is forced upwardly, the pin 46 thereon, riding in the cam groove 45,

will rotate the said rod suiiiciently to move i vburner tube, but to insure such return movement, I provide a spring 49 coiled around the rod between the lower end of the bearing sleeve 44 and the shoulder provided by the upper end of the thimble 47. TWhen the rod is raised, this spring will be compressed, and, when the main lever 15 is released, the spring will at onceexpand so as to positively return the parts to the initial position.

The main lever 15 has a depending switch arm 50 formed thereon in rear of the :tulcrum, and the lower end of this switch arm is adapted to move over the free end of a yielding contact arm 51 which is secured to a bracket 52 secured rigidly to the standard 2 but insulated therefrom. The thimble 47 is formed of insulating material or is otherwise insulated from the end of the rod 42, so that the current cannot be destroyed or carried out of its Vproper course through the metallic paths oii'ered by the rod 42 and the standard 2. The contact arm 51 is connected by a conductor 53 with one terminal 54 of the. primary winding of the spark coil 54', the other terminal of said winding being connected by a conductor 55 to the battery. A binding post 56 in the secondary winding is connected by a conductor 57 with the bearing sleeve 4-4 and said sleeve being in contact with the rod 42, the current passes through these parts to the cap 41 and thence through the burner tube 38 to the lamp body 37, whence it passes through a conductor 58 to the upper end of the standard 2. The primary circuit runs from t-he battery to the primary winding, and from said winding through the conductor 53 to the arm 51, thence through the arms 51 and 50, the standard 2 and the conductor 28 back to the battery. As the circuit is closed by the arms 50 and 51, the vibrator 60, which may be adjusted by a set-screw 61, operates to send the current from the secondary winding through the rod 42 and as said rod is raised and the cap 41 is moved away from the wick tube 3S, a spark will pass between these parts to ignite the fuel atthe end of the wick and create a dame from which the cigar may be lighted. The upper end of the burner tube is beveled so that the shortest gap will be at the wick and the ignition thereby made certain. When the lever 15 is released and the parts returned to their initial positions, the cap 41 again fits over the end of the burner tube and consequently eXtinguishes the flame. rlhis action economizes fuel and also reduces the liability of the flame generated being permitted to reach any inflammable material adjacent thereto, as will be readily understood.

What I claim is:

1. In an apparatus tor the purpose set forth, the combination of a casing having a view-opening, a rotary drum mounted in the casing adjacent the view-opening, a driving disk rigid with one end of the drum, an operating lever fulcrumed within the casing below said disk and having an upwardly projecting stop adapted to engage the said disk, a vibratory arm pivoted at the rear of the lever and engaged by the same, and a spring-controlled dog pivoted to the rear end of said arm and adapted to engage the disk to actuate the same.

2. In an apparatus for the purpose set forth, the combination of a casing having a view-opening, a rotatable drum mounted in the casing adjacent the view-opening, a driving disk rigid with one end of the drum, a pawl pivotally mounted above the disk and adapted to engage the same, an operating lever fulcrunied below t-he disk and having a stop rising from its upper edge to engage the disk, a vibratory arm pivoted at the rear of the lever and engaged thereby, and a spring-controlled dog pivoted to the rear end of the vibratory arm and adapted to engage the driving disk to actuate the same.

3. In an apparatus for the purpose set forth, the combination of a casing having a view-opening, a drum rotatably mounted in the casing adjacent the said view-opening, electric lamps supported within the casing adjacent the ends of the drum and of said view-opening and between the casing and the drum, an operating lever ulcrumed within the casing, means actuated by said lever to rotate the drum with a step by step movement, means on the lever to hold the 'drum at rest, and an electric circuit including the lamps and the said lever and controlled by the lever whereby the lamps will be extinguished during movement of the drum and lighted at intervals preceding said movement.

4. In an apparatus Jfor the purpose set forth, the combination of a casing having a view-opening, a rotary drum mounted Within the casing adjacent the said view-opening, electric lamps supported within the casing adjacent the ends of the view-opening and of the drum and between the casing and the drum, a lever tulcrumed within the casing, a switch arm disposed in the path of movement of the lever, means actuated by the lever to rotate the drum and to hold the In testimony whereof I alx my signature same at rest, and im electric circuit neludin presence of two Witnesses.

ing the lamps and the said lever and said v switch arm whereby the lamps Will be au- LAWRENCD B GRSBERGER' D" S'] tomateally lighted prior to movement of lVtnesses:

the drum and extinguished when the drum SOL BERNSTEIN, 1s set m motlon.

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